I get hit up by recruiters or past coworkers to come work for their company. Companies seem to have this notion that if they have eccentric benefits, it will draw people to come work there. Perhaps there are some individuals who like to work for free or get "perks" that they could easily purchase themselves in exchange for tens of...

Hell is other people's code. Why did they do this? I understand the logic, but the implementation... it goes on and on. At least at that point you have the source and you can reason about it. Not so with Windows.

What did I want to do? I had a friend who was having problems with using a system restore point in Windows 10. I've used...

I hate terrible book to film adaptations. Especially if the source material is excellent. Enter The Maze Runner. A book pentology published starting in 2009 to 2016, but recently got the silver screen treatment. WARNING, spoilers spoilers spoilers!...

Programming communities come in two flavors: Q&A and message boards. Stackoverflow is an example of the former with Dream.In.Code the latter. Bytes, cprogramming, cplusplus, Daniweb, the list goes on and on. Then there's reddit. Forums for news, code, computer science, you name it. I find /r/programming...

Generally when software fails, there is some sort of error message that informs the user what happened and what, if anything, they can do to rectify it. Then there are cases where is no such message and the user is left with nothing. And then there's this:

I spent the better part of the yesterday afternoon trying to figure out why I was getting different results when using GzipWriter versus using Zlib::deflate and putting my own headers on it. Lo and behold while both gzip and zlib use DEFLATE...